Out-Of-Character Information
The simplest section of the application! Simply answer these questions so we can get to know you a bit better.
What’s your Minecraft Account Name?: - Heres_Jonny_
How old are you?: - 19
What time-zone do you live in?: - 10+ AEST
Have you ever roleplayed before - if you have, how?: - Yes, via World of Warcraft.
Have you been on any other roleplaying servers?: - Not on Minecraft.
Have you applied to this server before?(Please link past applications): - No.
How did you hear about us?: - Researching Roleplay Servers for Minecraft, found through Google.
What do you think the server will be like? - I hope to find a mature community, with a friendly and helpful attitude. I am unsure what to expect in terms of roleplay, but from my thoughts it will be good, and memorable.
Have you read and agreed to the rules?: - Yes.
What’s your favourite rule / the rule you agree with the most?: - “You're only allowed to play as one of the approved races”, I really find it distasteful finding many many different races with little to no population. I am glad this will not be a factor here.
Definitions
What is roleplaying?: - Roleplaying is creating, molding a character with various elements we ourselves have. A background, personality, strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes. We takes these to create a character, and then we act as that character as an Actor would play a role.
What’s metagaming?: - The use of OOCly gained knowledge, and using that OOC knowledge IC. An example is telling someone a war is coming in OOC, their character then begins to prepare their town for an incoming war. Someone learns your characters name OOCly, they then use that name ICly.
What’s powergaming?: - Often this can be mixed with godmodding, many people have their own definitions, but I’ll say as I see it. It is controlling a situation, regardless of how you control it. You do not control the situation, you control only yourself. You can manipulate the situation fairly through your character, but you cannot force the change of a situation. You cannot force an attack on an enemy, it must be an attempt. To some powergaming can also be seen as making a character too strong, with little cause or reason.
In-Character Information
What’s your character called?: - Felendil (lacking a family name)
What race are they (and sub-race)?: - Elf, Dark Elf.
What sex are they?: - Male.
How old are they?: - 649, just over his middle-ages.
Give us a brief description of their life - their story, childhood, family: - Felendil found himself growing up in a tract of forest called the Green Heart with a small ‘tribe’, as some would call it. A gathering of Dark Elves that moved from location to location, living off the land by hunting alone. Living in tents made of boiled leather, and wearing fur for most of the year, by some of the more ‘respectable’ Elves, they were seen as lesser. They were often hostile, this tribe, finding many conflicts with other hunters or landowners. Felendil was raised by his father, Arkan. Arkan had taught him the principles of being a Dark Elf, their superiority to the other races, slowly installing an extreme racism in his mind that would be permanently branded into his personality. He was taught the use of the short bow, how to hunt and track, where to find food and water. As he aged, he learnt more skills, such as the blade, which in future would become useful for the conflicts that frequently occurred. His Father did not know how to write, nor read, and just like his Father, Felendil was not taught this skill. He knew little of the world but what his Father told him, which was always filled with anger and hate.
Unlike others, his gathering of Dark Elves he belonged with were accustomed to constantly uprooting their lives and moving elsewhere, which posed no problem when they were forced to flee Aegis, and later Asulon. While it was easy to leave behind their previous hunting grounds, it was not so easy to find lands unknown to any of them among their numbers. The first years were tough, travelling constantly to find the prime lands for hunting and gathering. Many of the ‘tribe’ splintered, moving off to live with their kin in the Elven cities, or to become swords-for-hire, taking shelter wherever they could, and paying for food with blood money. As numbers dwindled, the clashes of conflict became much more fierce, with less numbers hunters and landowners became more bold, often resulting in violence over words. Such constant attacks further stomped their numbers, and with lack of proper medicine, small overlooked cuts became fatal. Felendil held a rage inside, that he maintained in a prison cage, a rage of utter fury that others would ‘dare’ attack those superior to them, a thought instilled into him by his Father.
Soon his Father came of age in which he was no longer capable of hunting as regularly, nor partaking in defending their ‘hunting grounds’. Felendil was responsible for feeding two mouths each day, but while he was great at tracking, he was not so good with the bow, a preference for a curved blade. He often came home with only the bare minimum, as the humans vast population stripped the land of animals. It was not long until he found himself in a darkened tavern at night, hoping someone would need a sword-for-hire, in a way, disgracing his Father. That one night turned into two, two into four, four into eight, and it was not long he found himself in taverns for work than he did in the forests hunting. He found good coin which helped him bring food for his Father, and while he did it, he honed his skills in combat. It was now those years that his Father was reaching the end of his millennium of life, in which most Elves did not live past. He rarely visited, finding preference in sending couriers with his Fathers needs and wants, but when he required guidance and wisdom, he would return.
What are they like (personality)?: - Felendil maintains a constant dark personality. He finds little humor among other races, lest he is with Dark Elves, and some fairer skinned Elves he deems worthy. He is an elitist at heart, a firm belief that the Elves are superior to others, but he also finds that the other sub-races of Elves can be just as bothersome as some foreign races. He holds a respect for the other sub-types, and with the foreign races he holds a well kept hatred. He believes while Elves are superior to others, that of the Elves, the Dark Elves are among the greatest of their kin. He is not a man to start violence, he holds his disdain well, knowing that needless violence is an easy way to get oneself killed.
What are their ambitions?: - Felendil has little in ambition, but that of raising the Elves to a ‘higher’ status. He believes the Elves should be far more harsher on the ‘inferior’ races, and that their life is in itself, divine. He is not a very smart man, and apart from that shared ambition with his Father, he has none of his own.
Do they have any special skills?: - Felendil has no ‘special’ skills. He is a hunter and warrior at heart, which is far from special.
What are their weaknesses?: - Felendil has the weaknesses of any mortal men. Fatigue can wear on him. He is able to be gutted just as easily as any other man. He is not the brightest of the bunch, preferring to use himself as the brawn, rather than the brains.
Give us a description of how they look (not a screenshot yet!)?: - Felendil stands at 6ft 5”, unlike most Elves, he is not so petite and lithe, he is rather muscular. He spends many days in the forests, taking what baths in rivers and ponds as he can. Most days he smells of a terrible stench from hard marches. His cheeks are rather gaunt, and unlike most Elves that are younger, he is beginning to show signs of age. His long black hair is tightly pulled back over his head, while an iron circlet sits on his forehead. When hunting he often wears brown furs, but otherwise he is seen in a black dyed boiled leather vest with crimson dyed boiled leather pauldrons. He wears a black fur kilt with crimson cloth dangling from the four sides of his waist. His boots are thick, large and black.
Anything else you want to say about them?: - While Felendil holds a hatred for the ‘lesser’ races, he tends to travel frequently across the lands, most often finding himself in taverns. He often sells himself as a sword-for-hire, regardless who they’re, if a human wants him to go to war for him, he’ll be doing it for the coin alone.
Please give us a screenshot of your character’s skin: -
